Title & Author:

Architecture and tourism : perception, performance, and place / edited by D. Medina Lasansky and Brian McLaren.

Edition:

English ed.

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2004.

Description:

xx, 275 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction, fragmentation, and collection: Rome and the origin of souvenirs / Sarah Benson -- Early travelers in Greece and the invention of medieval architectural history / Kostis Kourelis -- Performing abroad: British tourists in Italy and their practices, 1840-1914 / Jill Steward -- From Tripoli to Ghadames: architecture and the tourist experience of local culture in Italian colonial Libya / Brian McLaren -- A pilgrimage to the Alcázar of Toledo: ritual, tourism, and propaganda in Franco's Spain / Miriam Basilio -- Authenticating dungeons, whitewashing castles: the former sites of the slave trade on the Ghanaian coast / Cheryl Finley -- From photographic fragments to architectural illusions at the 1929 Poble Espanyol in Barcelona / Jordana Mendelson -- Simulating France, seducing the world: the regional center at the 1937 Paris exposition / Deborah D. Hurtt -- Tourist geographies: remapping old Habana / D. Medina Lasansky -- Sweetening colonialism: a Mauritian themed resort / Tim Edensor and Uma Kothan -- Doing it right: postwar honeymoon resorts in the Pocono Mountains / Barbara Penner -- New politics of the spectacle: "Bilbao" and the global imagination / Joan Ockman -- Egypt on steroids: Luxor Las Vegas and postmodern orientalism / Jeffrey Cass.

Summary:

The past two centuries have witnessed an increase in the commodification of tourist sites across the world. Everything from historical monuments to exotic destinations has been redesigned for mass consumption. This book examines the relationship between tourism needs and the built environment.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
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Table of contents

ISBN:

1859737048 (cloth)
9781859737040 (cloth)
1859737099 (pbk.)
9781859737095 (pbk.)
(ebk.)
9781417597956
9781845208523

Subject:

Architecture and tourism.
Architecture and recreation.
Architecture et loisirs.
Architecture et tourisme.
Toerisme.
Culturele aspecten.
Monumenten.
Historische plaatsen.
Cultura.
Turismo.

Added entries:

Lasansky, D. Medina.
McLaren, Brian.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 250480
Call No.: NA2543.T68 A7 2004
Status: Available